"A mother can read all the child-rearing books and can subscribe to any theory of parenting, but what gets passed along to her children is something far more intimate and mysterious than anything contained therein. What gets passed along is her character, and it enters into her kids as surely and as inexorably as water flows from a fuller vessel into a less-full one." Laurence Shames

I will walk through the fire

My God is a consuming fire
I will not be afraid of what could destroy me
I will not grow cold in comfort and ease
I will embrace the heat of it, smell the smoke in my nostrils and let the flames lick my skin and singe my hair.
I will love and be loved.
Through loving, I will love others.
Through being loved, I will learn to accept love.
The most trying times of my life may be ahead.
The most wonderful times of my life may be ahead.I will walk through fire.

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Cause I’m not who I was
When I took my first step
And I’m clinging to the promise You’re not through with me yet
so if all of these trials bring me closer to you
Then I will walk through the fire
If You want me to